-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 08 June 2002 19:51, Greg Wooledge wrote: > Revenant ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > To take the extreme example, a system based around all transient > > nodes would require greater 'mirroring' of any given piece of data. > > [...] > > I don't understand this part at all. A Freenet with all transient > nodes cannot insert anything at all. No node will be able to contact > any other node, because nobody's accepting incoming connections. > > Maybe you're misunderstanding what "transient" means in this case. We're > not talking about nodes that are up part of the time and down part of > the time. We're talking about nodes that have "transient=true" in their > freenet.conf (or freenet.ini) file. These aren't really Freenet nodes > at all; they do not participate in the routing and data storage parts > of Freenet. In particular, they do not permit incoming connections from > other nodes. All they can do is leech.
Back in the 0.2 days (and I doubt things have changed in this regard), I belive "transient node" was defined as a node that never sets the "DataSource" fields in FNP to itself. If you knew what the node referance is for a transient node, you could still request and insert things from it like any other node. However, the network as a whole has no means to find out what the node referance is. - -- "If that makes any sense to you, you have a big problem." --C. Durance, Computer Science 234 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAj0CtxIACgkQqpueKcacfLS4TQCeOxHwC2GuGr7MMYKl8AbxEPhC uHkAn1YD+usT9ljb9Meh/rGembSa2TEG =9tbl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ chat mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hawk.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/chat